Social decision making is a highly complex process that involves diverse cognitive mechanisms,
and it is driven by the precise processing of information from both the environment and …

Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity.
In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge for …

Macronutrients – carbohydrates, fats, and proteins – supply the nutrients required for
optimal functioning. Inadequate intake compromises both physical and brain health. We …

… δ t = r t − Q(chosen) t . The action value of the chosen response is then updated … to Q t+1
= Q t + α(outcome) × d t and that of the unchosen option is updated according to Q t+1 = Q t . …

The primate orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is involved in reward processing, learning, and
decision making. Research in monkeys has shown that this region is densely connected with …

An optimal choice among alternative behavioral options requires precise anticipatory
representations of their possible outcomes. A fundamental question is how such anticipated …

Objective: In alcohol-dependent patients, alcohol cues evoke increased activation in
mesolimbic brain areas, such as the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala. Moreover, patients …

Receiving social feedback such as praise or blame for one's character traits is a key component
of everyday human interactions. It has been proposed that humans are positively biased …

In everyday life, successful decision making requires precise representations of expected
values. However, for most behavioral options more than one attribute can be relevant in order …

A large body of evidence has implicated the posterior parietal and orbitofrontal cortex in the
processing of value. However, value correlates perfectly with salience when appetitive …